What does the word "peace" mean, anyway?

Hey, you Condi in '08 people, you might want to reconsider:

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was quoted in an American newspaper Thursday as saying that the UN force expected to deploy in south Lebanon will not be tasked with forcibly disarming Hezbollah.

"I don't think there is an expectation that this [UN] force is going to physically disarm Hezbollah," Rice told USA Today. "I think it's a little bit of a misreading about how you disarm a militia. You have to have a plan, first of all, for the disarmament of the militia, and then the hope is that some people lay down their arms voluntarily."

If Hezbollah resists international demands to disarm, Rice said, "one would have to assume that there will be others who are willing to call Hezbollah what we are willing to call it, which is a terrorist organization."

There is a UN resolution already for disarming Hezbollah and yet, no one did anything about it and now they have yet another empty resolution that no one will enforce. Why bother? Are we at war or not?

Read the rest here, because I didn't even bother with the quotes from the French. You might want to read it, you know the French on defense, they are usually quite amusing. The jokes just write themselves.

(Link via Little Green Footballs)